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The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Today we will learn about tungsten, an element most famous for its association with lightbulbs.

It is the element with two names: tungsten, from the Swedish name meaning “heavy stone”, and wolfram, from the mineral wolframite.

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